What a ridiculous question. The real answer, and the one commonly accepted in any Arab country, is I don’t condemn resistance movements. I only blame them for not doing more to avoid civilian casualties that’s all.
You have to understand this question isn’t about the actual question. 90% of a debate is won by who gets to frame the issue. The other 10% is just tactical wrangling within whatever narrow frame was established, heavily favoring whoever chose the frame. This question is about framing the issue. Just don’t accept it. Don’t accept the framing. Don’t even waste a minute responding to it in any way whatsoever.
“Do you condemn the ongoing genocide? The ongoing apartheid? Do you condemn the Nakba?”
I don’t think there is a PR friendly answer as such since you either condemn hamas unconditionally or you are soft on them.
My response generally has been “Objectively the only strategy that can stop the existence of Hamas is to forcefully stop the Israeli campaign of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid, if you want to bomb Hamas out of existence that objectively means bombing every single Palestinian to death.”
This is of course, not condemning Hamas, so its not PR friendly.
PR friendly: "I’m in no position to condemn or endorse Hamas; this is up to the Palestinians living in Gaza. And … " then what you wrote.
“Palestine has a right to defend itself.” “Do you deny Palestines’s right to exist?”
Getting into semantic debates with imperial citizens about an objective definition of “terrorism” is useless, because “terrorism” has been effectively defined in the imperial consciousness since at least 2001 as “subhuman enemy without rights under law”.
No
“Do you condemn the warsaw ghetto uprising?”
I saw responses like the Jews didn’t kidnap or kill civilians in the uprising
1860 and you’re being asked “do you condemn the sioux raids on innocent homesteaders”
the frontier settlers have a right to defend themselves
And look how that turned out for them.
Jews didn’t kidnap or kill civilians in the uprising
hahahahahaha so if the US wasn’t literally at war with the germans at the time, these people would condemn it. of course they killed civilians lmfao
Revolutionaries didn’t choose armed struggle as the best path
It is the path the oppressors imposed to people
“No, and you’re lucky the FBI’s committed enough extrajudicial genocide that all those Amerika oppresses haven’t formed a Hamas-type entity against you, either. Inshallah you will be dead within twenty years.”
Hamas is an army of orphans. The Israelis are reaping what they have sowed by their decades long effort to squeeze the Palestinian people out of existence.
“Palestine has a right to defend itself”
“Do you condemn what created Hamas?”
“I condemn your mom for allowing you to ask me that question”
Perfect PR
I’ve had some success with “what else are they supposed to do?” The ones who actually have a shred of understanding of this conflict are either forced to say “I don’t know” or give a weak-ass “something else”
Of course the dumbasses say shit like “Hamas should turn themselves in so Israel stops bombing Gaza” as if the genocide is their fault.
“I condemn Israel for creating Hamas.”
No and I also don’t condemn earthquakes. You cannot condemn the culmination of natural phenomenon whether that’s tectonic plates moving or people reacting to decades of intense subjugation with no resolution or even meaningful concern in sight
